Non-Medical Prescriber
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About the role
As a Non-Medical Prescriber in North Northamptonshire, youll play a key role in helping people make meaningful changes to their health, wellbeing and recovery.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary and multi-agency team, youll combine clinical expertise with a genuinely person-centred approach assessing need, making prescribing decisions and helping shape safe, effective treatment around the individual.
Youll initiate and review opiate and alcohol substitute treatment, make appropriate changes to medication and provide clinical guidance to colleagues across the service. Youll also help develop our prescribing clinics, becoming a trusted point of contact for prescribing advice, clinical decision-making and partnership working.
This is a role where your judgement matters. Youll work with complexity, balance risk and opportunity, and collaborate closely with colleagues to make sure people receive the right treatment at the right time.
Youll be supported by our NMP Lead, Assistant Medical Director and Service Medical Lead, alongside a wider network of experienced clinicians.
And we invest in your development too. Our NMPs benefit from dedicated monthly CPD time, active support with revalidation and access to a strong peer network, including a facilitated monthly prescribers' forum.
Bring your clinical expertise. Bring your curiosity. Help us create better possibilities for people across North Northamptonshire.
Job description
As an Independent Non-Medical Prescriber (NMP), youll be an integral part of a multidisciplinary and multi-agency team delivering recovery-focused drug and alcohol treatment. Youll use your clinical expertise to assess individual needs, make safe and evidence-based prescribing decisions and support people to achieve the best possible outcomes from treatment.
Working within your professional scope of practice, youll assess, diagnose, plan and review treatment, including initiating and amending prescriptions for opiate and alcohol substitute treatment and other associated medication. Youll develop individual clinical management plans alongside Recovery Coordinators, assess suitability for detoxification and continually review treatment to ensure it remains safe, effective and responsive to the persons needs.
Youll provide clear information about prescribed, illicit and over-the-counter medicines, including potential side effects and interactions, helping people make informed decisions about their treatment. Youll also identify wider physical and mental health needs, respond appropriately to complex or urgent clinical situations and support access to services including BBV vaccination, immunisation and health promotion.
Strong communication is essential. Youll build effective relationships with people using our services, carers, colleagues and external partners, adapting your communication where needed and ensuring people are fully informed and able to consent to treatment. Youll advocate for service users and help create coordinated care across organisational and professional boundaries.
Youll work in line with professional standards, national prescribing competencies, clinical guidance and Change Grow Live policies. Accurate and contemporaneous clinical records, effective workload management and a strong approach to clinical governance will be central to the role.
Youll contribute to audit, evaluation and quality improvement, using evidence, peer review and shared learning to strengthen clinical practice. Youll also understand and apply safeguarding legislation and procedures for children and adults at risk.
This is more than an individual prescribing role. Youll help develop prescribing practice within the service, act as a source of clinical expertise for colleagues and partner agencies and promote the role of the NMP across the wider team.
Youll contribute to staff development and training, participate in clinical and peer supervision and identify opportunities to improve how care is delivered. Youll work collaboratively with colleagues, support safe delegation and contribute to new and improved ways of working.
Youll also manage clinical risk within your area of responsibility, contribute to safe working practices and use clinical information and data effectively to support care planning, monitoring, audit and service improvement.
Youll be a qualified Non-Medical Prescriber and either:
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Essential criteria
- Youll be a qualified Non-Medical Prescriber with current professional registration. Youll be either a qualified pharmacist with current GPhC registration and at least two years post-qualification experience, or a first-level registered nurse with a current NMC PIN and at least three years post-qualification experience.
- Youll also bring at least one year of recent, relevant experience within substance misuse treatment, alongside strong knowledge of clinical prescribing, harm reduction, health promotion and the wider health and social issues affecting people who use drugs or alcohol. Youll be confident assessing and recovery planning with service users, interpreting relevant medical test results and contributing to service or project development.
- Youll be able to undertake physical examinations relevant to your prescribing role, maintain high-quality clinical and administrative records and use clinical audit to evaluate practice and identify opportunities for improvement. Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential, together with the ability to travel between services where required.
- Youll also demonstrate a strong commitment to safeguarding, professional integrity, equality, diversity and inclusion, confidentiality and information governance, alongside a commitment to maintaining and developing your own professional knowledge and supporting the learning of others.
Desirable
- Desirable criteria
- It would be an advantage if you bring experience or knowledge of motivational interviewing techniques, alongside a postgraduate qualification in drugs and/or alcohol, such as an RCGP qualification.
About the employer
Believe in peoplePeople are at the heart of everything we do.At Change Grow Live, we believe change is possible. We see the person, not the label. We listen, we challenge, we support and we work alongside people to help them move towards the life they want.That belief extends to our people too.We want you to bring your experience, ideas and perspective. To be curious. To think differently. And to use what you know to make a meaningful difference.Our purposeWe're here to help people change the direction of their lives.But our ambition doesn't stop there.We're building and sharing a whole-person approach that connects services, challenges convention and creates better experiences and outcomes for the people and communities we work with.Because lasting change doesn't come from standing still.Different perspectives. Stronger teams.The people we support are different. Our teams should be too.We welcome people with different backgrounds, experiences, perspectives and ways of thinking. Because when we bring those differences together, we make better decisions, build stronger services and reach more people.Safeguarding is everyone's responsibilityKeeping children, young people and adults safe is fundamental to how we work.You'll be supported with the knowledge, training and confidence you need to recognise risk, take action and help create services where people feel safe, respected and supported.This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with CHANGE, GROW, LIVE, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
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